Re: [Gnuplot-info] minor ticks on logaritmic axis

[BBands <bb...@gm...>]

Does 'set mxtics 10' seem correct to you?

     John

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Bo Jakobsen <li...@f7...> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I am trying to understand how gnuplot sets minor tics on a logaritmic
> scale and if that is "correct"
>
> running the following minimal example:
>
> set logscale x
> set xrang [10:100]
> set yrang [1:10]
> set mxtics 4
> plot "<echo '50 1'"
>
> shows that minor tics are sat at  25,50, and 75
>
> The first interval represents a smaller linear range (10-25) whereas the
> later 3 represents a range of 25.
> It that what is expected for minor tics on a log scale.
>
> setting mxtics to 8 is even worse I now gets minor tics at: 12.5, 50,
> 37.5 ...
> in which the first interval only represents 2.5 on a linear scale, and
> the minor tics seems totally out of place
>
> Does any one here know what is the correct way to put minor tics?